Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[al6517]

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Yes, I prefer to seperate my roo's until the hens show their ready then in he goes into her pen, thats important, her pen !!.

Eye Color is paramount in Cornish but this a prickly subject with the purest and better saved for another time LOL.

Yes and it's chicken I am cooking LOL.

AL

 

[Illia]

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Love seeing your eye candy, Al!

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Thank you Bob.
Ginny

 

[al6517]

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It is harder to have a well conditioned Cornish because of the hard feathers and if you have a perfect conditioned one with awesome type, you still need a friend when it come to class champ. just my opinion though. It is the only breed I can think of where people think the eye color makes the breed. Don't get me wrong.....I love a pearl eye! There are just a lot of things for a judge to get picky over on a Cornish.

Walt

Huh, good point! I've never seen judges more concerned about eye-color than when it came to Cornish....Is it that the pearl is so difficult to draw out?

The pearl eye is very very hard to come by and breeding for it takes tenacity, needless to say there are very few that have them. All of mine do and I can tell you it wasn't by chance that's for sure. It is so bad that during the National poultry show in Shawnee Ok this year none of the 30 entries had the pearl eye, and there was even a petition circulating to have the APA standard changed to light red. I just happened to have a few birds in my truck that day and when some ole boy popped off that there are not any left, I said oh yeah come with me. Before I knew it there was a parade procession behind me and when these birds were pulled from their cages, they litteraly freaked out. Needless to say the naysayers were a little peeved at me as the petition then had no chance of going forward.
The originators of the petition were just being lazy and really didn't want to breed, cull, or find birds with it, so they thought it would just be easier to change how things are done. So needless to say this eye color disscussion amoung Cornish men is tenious at best.

here you can see a good example of the pearl eye.

AL

 

[Yellow House Farm]

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Thank you Bob.
Ginny

Ok, he goes to her cage. Is that a more feral/pheasant throwback to territoriality? It's the opposite in rabbits, where she goes to him specifically. However, I was thinking that you were doing this strictly AI. Is this not so? Or only in certain cases on account of breast dimension?

 

[usschicago1]

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Huh, good point! I've never seen judges more concerned about eye-color than when it came to Cornish....Is it that the pearl is so difficult to draw out?

The pearl eye is very very hard to come by and breeding for it takes tenacity, needless to say there are very few that have them. All of mine do and I can tell you it wasn't by chance that's for sure. It is so bad that during the National poultry show in Shawnee Ok this year none of the 30 entries had the pearl eye, and there was even a petition circulating to have the APA standard changed to light red. I just happened to have a few birds in my truck that day and when some ole boy popped off that there are not any left, I said oh yeah come with me. Before I knew it there was a parade procession behind me and when these birds were pulled from their cages, they litteraly freaked out. Needless to say the naysayers were a little peeved at me as the petition then had no chance of going forward.
The originators of the petition were just being lazy and really didn't want to breed, cull, or find birds with it, so they thought it would just be easier to change how things are done. So needless to say this eye color disscussion amoung Cornish men is tenious at best.

here you can see a good example of the pearl eye.

AL
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/10364_img_1090.jpg

Wow, That is VERY interesting, and those eyes are beautiful too !

 

[al6517]

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Thank you Bob.
Ginny

Ok, he goes to her cage. Is that a more feral/pheasant throwback to territoriality? It's the opposite in rabbits, where she goes to him specifically. However, I was thinking that you were doing this strictly AI. Is this not so? Or only in certain cases on account of breast dimension?

I only AI when I see a rise in clear egg's, then I hold back until he's ready again, I put some other lesser birds in with him to keep his plumbing flowing. After a day or two I pull him for a week and then repeat.

Yes it is mainly due to the wide stance of the Roo coupled with the upper shank angle, and if your hen's are small in the back you can forget any chance of successful mountings. I do keep longer spurs on my boy's and file them bluntly, it seems to help their balance and hang on better.

AL

 

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[al6517]

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What ya talkin about Bee ???.

AL

 

[kathyinmo]

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What ya talkin about Bee ???.

AL

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